Christie: Enough with the Trump questions

Chris Christie is done with the media’s questions about Donald Trump’s immigration remarks.

“You know, enough. We’ve answered the questions,” Christie said Monday on “Fox and Friends.” “It’s inappropriate. The comments were inappropriate. But listen, Donald is a friend, I’ve known him for 13 years, and I like him personally. But his comments were inappropriate. That’s now the 50th time I’ve said it. It’s going to be the last time I say it.”

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Asked about his fellow Republican candidate’s comments again on Monday’s “Fox & Friends,” the New Jersey governor said he would rather talk about entitlement reform and education reform, and not Trump’s comments that Mexico and other countries are sending rapists and murderers across the border.

”But no, seriously, when I’m out there talking to folks, nobody in the real world asks me about this. Nobody. But every time I get on a media show, all anybody ever wants to talk about is Donald Trump,” Christie said.

In both Monday’s interview and past media appearances, Christie has mentioned his 13-year friendship with Trump, saying each time that the comments were inappropriate.

But Trump’s remarks seem to have struck a chord in border states, the hosts noted. Just this past weekend, he drew thousands to a campaign rally in Phoenix.

That’s a different issue, Christie said.

“If you want to talk about the things we need to do to address the immigration system—but that’s not what I get asked. What I get asked about is Donald Trump and his comments. His comments have nothing to do with—nothing to do with how we deal with immigration and the immigration system,” Christie added, noting that the best way to protect the border is not, as Trump has suggested, by building a gigantic wall along the country’s southern border with Mexico.

Pressed on the issue of sanctuary cities in his own state, Christie said there is nothing he can do as governor “if a city needs to do that.”